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°18.— A tenant of W. Peterson, 
esq. of Lyme, Dorsetshire, a few 
weeks since, bowed down by the 
expenses of a large family, and 
the pressure of the times, formed 
the fatal resolution of drowning 
himself. He went to the sea 
side, and sprang from a rock, 
but in the very act of drowning, 
he was perceived by the boat’s 
crew of his landlord, who were 
very providentially passing by at 
some distance, and who rowed to 
the spot just in time to save the 
unhappy man. Mr. Petersonhad 
no sooner recognized in the un- 
fortunate person his own. tenant, 
and learned the cause of this des- 
perate resolution, than he sent 
him a receipt to exonerate him 
from all his demands, amounting 
to upwards of 400/., and after- 
wards provided for his future ne- 
cessities, by stocking another farm 
and putting him into the fall 
possession of it. Suchan action 
needs no comment. 
IRELAND. 
Forged Stamps. 
Mr. Burrowes, solicitor to 
the Stamp office, since his ap- 
pointment to that situation, has 
been indefatigable in his endea- 
yours to procure such informa- 
tion as would lead to the detec- 
tion and apprehension of the per- 
sons who have so long inundated 
this city, and indeed ali Ireland, 
with forged stamps, robbing the 
revenue of upwards of one hun- 
dred thousand pounds annually, 
and thereby obliging the legisla- 
ture to make up the deficiency in 
the revenue by taxing many ne- 
cessary articles of life. Mr. Bur- 
rowes having obtained satisfacto- 
ry information concerning this 
nefarious traffic, communicated 
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with the magistrates of the head: 
office on the best mode of appre- 
hending all the parties at the 
same moment, so that the appre- 
hension of one should not give 
warning to the rest. The whole 
of this very important business 
was entrusted to Mr. Farrell, 
chief constable of the police, and 
we shall now relate how effec- 
tually he executed it. 
On Friday morning at the hour 
of eleven o’clock, seven parties of 
peace officers were assembled at 
the head office, where each re- 
ceived their route from Mr. Far- 
rell, and which was so secretly 
managed, that no one man knew 
what was to be done by any of 
the other parties. Every thing 
being thus arranged, each party 
went to their destined point. Mr. 
Farrell proceeded to Portobello 
with a party of: nine men, who 
were posted in the neighbourhood 
of Camden-street, Charlemont- 
street, and. Portobello, it being 
known that the person they were 
looking after, against whom there 
were informations that he, a few 
days since, rescued himself from: 
an arrest of a civil nature, did 
not reside at his house, they: 
watched for sometime. After a 
lapse of two hours and a half, he 
was perceived advancing in the 
direction of Old Portobello, and 
was instantly arrested by Mr. 
Farrell himself, who asked him, 
was not his name Japhet White, 
and produced the warrant for his 
apprehension ; he then brought 
him into Mr. M’Gowen’s public- 
house, and having got a private 
room, proceeded to search him, 
when, in one of his boots, was 
found a forged die for a twenty 
pound stamp, and in the other, a 
